Myth: Geniuses do not forget

Myth

Geniuses do not forget things!

Fact

Genius brains are made of the same substance as average ones. Consequently, their memories are subject to the exactly same laws of forgetting. All knowledge in the human brain declines along a negatively exponential forgetting curve. Forgetting is as massive in a genius mind as it is in any other. The best tools against forgetting are:

1. knowledge coherence
2. good knowledge representation
3. review (based on active recall and spaced repetition)

Geniuses may hold an advantage by developing powerful representation skills that make learning much easier. They often develop those skills early and without a conscious effort

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